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About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

I came to work at Red Hat because of my strong belief in Open Source. I support and promote Fedora because of that same belief.

My tattoo is about much more than the distribution, it is about the ethos behind it. So even if Fedora changes, even if I change, the tattoo is a meaningful reminder of a very important chapter of my life. I love it, it means a lot to me, and it always will.

My question was more about the paper to use in order to make a tatoo, not really about the input file format.
Have you contacted a professional printer, or printed the tatoo yourself (and if so, how) ?

Hi Stéph, I asked Thomas and he said he just brought the PNG file on a USB stick to the shop, and they have a special printer that prints it out on transparent paper that they use to make a stencil. He said most good shops can do this, so if you’re looking to do your own, all you’ll need is a high-res bitmap.

That’s awesome! Although, I know of a guy who has a Chevy logo tattooed on his arm and we won’t stop making fun of that guy. Just sayin’.😉

And speaking of tattoos and Inkscape, my wife is off to get her final tattoo today of an Alice in Wonderland thingy that she made in Inkscape. Her last two tattoos were made in Inkscape as well. Perhaps Inkscape should be re-branded as a tattoo artist’s application of choice…before the Gimp crowd claims it. Hurry! We could even run the TV commercials during episodes of LA Ink.🙂

Sure. I did a rough clip around her arm. It’s not finished yet as they can only do a little at a time. She’ll have to go back in a few weeks to finish the outlining and then again to add all of the colors. It’s a work in progress.😉